Indubitably, Magick is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of co...mprehension, judgement and practice than in any other branch of physics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Some celebrated writers have supposed that wit and judgment were incompatible; opposite qualities, that, in a kind of elementary s...trife, destroyed each other: and many men of wit have endeavored to prove that they were mistaken. Much may be adduced by wits and metaphysicians on both sides of the question. But from experience, I am apt to believe that they do weaken each other, and that great quickness of comprehension, and facile association of ideas, naturally preclude profundity of research. Wit is often a lucky hit; the result of a momentary inspiration. We know not whence it comes, and it blows where it lists. The operations of judgment, on the contrary, are cool and circumspect; and coolness and deliberation are great enemies to enthusiasm.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The universe is then one, infinite, immobile.... It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to... that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobile.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Preschoolers sound much brighter and more knowledgeable than they really are, which is why so many parents and grandparents are so... sure their progeny are gifted and super-bright. Because children's questions sound so mature and sophisticated, we are tempted to answer them at a level of abstraction far beyond the child's level of comprehension. That is a temptation we should resist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The two basic maxims of the so-called historical criticism are the postulate of the common and the axiom of the ordinary. Postulat...e of the common: everything really great, good, and beautiful, is improbable, since it is extraordinary and therefore at least suspect. Axiom of the ordinary: our conditions and environment must have existed everywhere, for they are really so natural.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »